On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Joseph Tate wrote: > You could go through a caching web proxy. > If you have enough systems to warrant it, you can purchase the RHN to > run locally (though I can't remember what this product is called, or how > much it costs). We have a local RHN proxy. It is sold along with the RHEL licenses, since Red Hat would (understandably) prefer that they provide only the bandwidth required to send packages to your site once rather than to every computer individually. Unfortunately, we'd have the same problem as running 'up2date -d'. The RHN proxy only caches those packages which have been requested by clients. It doesn't seem to be any easier to get all packages from an RHN proxy than it is to do the same directly from RHN. > Generally, however, unless bandwidth on your end is a limiting factor, > using up2date on each server is recommended, as there's a whole lot more > that you can do with RHN than keep your servers up to date. I agree that RHN is nifty, but there are things we can do with yum that aren't as easy (or perhaps possible) with RHN. Thanks, Ian Masterson Dept. of Electrical Engineering (SSLI) University of Washington, Seattle
